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The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) mourns the passing of Jeffrey M. Capaccio, age 62, a former member of the NIAF Board of Directors. He had been a managing partner of the San Francisco office of Carr & Ferrell LLP, a Silicon Valley based intellectual property firm from 1999 until his death. “Jeff Capaccio’s passion for Italy and Itali...

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In Italia, e non solo, si fa sempre più intensa la polemica sulla scuola, colpita duramente dalla pandemia, in un alternarsi di aperture e chiusure, critiche e proteste. Nella sua prima conferenza stampa di venerdì 19 marzo, il premier Draghi ha detto che la scuola sarà la prima attività a riaprire e ha annunciato che ad essa saranno destinati 300...

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Sunday 03.14.2021 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT. The Italian community of San Francisco has been one of the most investigated in Italian American history. Rarely, however, has its experience been examined in relation to the distinctively multiethnic context of the West Coast. Italian immigrants, arriving to California between the late nineteenth and early...

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To mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri in Ravenna in 1321, activities and celebrations are being organized all over the world, confirming the universality of the message and the familiarity of The Divine Comedy, a work that not only contributed to the consolidation of the Tuscan dialect in the Italian language, but has also b...

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Prima visita a Casa Italiana-Italian Cultural Center a Seattle per la vice presidente del Comites di San Francisco, Francesca Morabito, che qui ha incontrato la console onoraria Elisabetta Valentini e il direttore della Casa Italiana Franco Tesorieri. Casa Italiana, spiega il Comites, “sarà la sede non solo di tutte le organizzazioni e comunità ita...

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After a winter of takeout, delivery, and eating al fresco, Italian restaurants in the Bay Area will finally be able to invite customers to dine in. Yesterday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that restaurants can resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity. As long as health indicators remain the same, the city will remain in the “red tie...

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He was a skinny high school student who had asthma, a high-pitched voice and effeminate mannerisms. He kept his distance from football players, who he said bullied him, but when his Catholic school in New Jersey formed a track team, Tom Ammiano decided to join. Mr. Ammiano, who would grow up to become one of the country’s pioneering gay leaders, an...

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MARCH 3 @ 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET. Zoom webinar. Oreganized by: Dickinson College. Register here. Ilana Rainero-de Haan, Music Planning Manager at San Franscisco Opera, will discuss how her study and career path in music and Italian language and culture across Italy and USA led her to her current position at the San Francisco Opera. She graduated fro...

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COM.IT.ES of San Francisco and the Italian American Heritage Foundation San Jose are excited to announce a new website dedicated to California’s Italian and Italian American experience. The Online Almanac of the History of the Italians of California (thealmanac.online) will launch on April 5, 2021. We invite all Italifornians© to become Members and...

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The Italian community of San Francisco has been one of the most investigated in Italian American history. Rarely, however, has its experience been examined in relation to the distinctively multiethnic context of the West Coast. Italian immigrants, arriving to California between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, encountered differen...

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